AN INTERPRETER OB ENGLAND

courtesy and good manners that have been
handed down by word of mouth and by
example from generation to generation. And
yet it is intensely human: it can lose its
temper and be sorry for it afterwards like any
child. But a most curious thing is the way
in which the corporate honour of the House
gradually makes its appeal to every member.
I have watched that growing feeling showing
itself in men who had entered the House full
of suspicion, sometimes almost of contempt,
but who have been captured in due course by
its great and wide humanity. Belittling an
institution such as the House of Commons by
speakers or by the Press is rendering the worst
possible service to constitutional government.
Criticise fairly, as much as you like, but there
is nothing so corrosive as constant ridicule

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